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Hazmat transportation security plans
By John
Fulton
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[FEB.
23, 2004]
Farmers have traditionally been exempt
from hazmat regulations for hazardous materials. Since 9/11, all
that has been questioned. Now it has changed. Since last September,
farmers who ship or transport certain hazardous materials in
quantity must use placards and develop and implement a
transportation security plan.
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The written security plan must include
measures to address personnel, unauthorized access and
transportation issues. The plan will not be collected by Illinois
Department of Transportation offices, but they are authorized to
enforce the regulations. If your dealer or supplier delivers the
materials to your operation, you don't need a security plan. In
those cases, the dealer does. If you transport the affected
pesticides, fertilizers and fuels only between fields of your farm,
you do not need a security plan.
The general rules are that more than
119 gallons of materials in a single container or more than 1,000
pounds in multiple containers trigger the need for the placard and
the transportation plan. The exception is dynamite, and any amount
needs a placard and a transportation plan.
Now for the all-important list. This is
not an all-inclusive list, but it hits some of the highlights:
dynamite, ammonium nitrate fertilizers, butane, diesel fuel, fuel
oil, gasoline, LP, anhydrous ammonia and a partial listing of
chemicals at right:
[to top of second column in
this article]
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Ammo
Aquathol
Asana
Azinphos methyl
Aztec
Bifenthrin
Calypso
Captan-lindane
Capture
Chlor-o-pic
Chlorothalonil
Chlorpyrifos liquid
Counter
Counter
Cyclone |
Cythion
Diazinon
Dimethoate
Di-syston
Endothall
Fortress
Furadan
Guthion
Methyl parathion
Mustang
Regent
Ridomil
Silverado
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Forms for the transportation security
plan are at
http://www.pesticidesafety.uiuc.edu/
newsletter/html/200401aplan.htm. A complete list of USDOT
Division 6.1 pesticides is at
http://southcrop.org/Ship_Desc/secondpage.htm. In the Southern
Crop Production Association website, you can do a find for "6.1" and
then click on "find next" to move through the chart.
[John
Fulton,
Logan County Extension office]
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